Books & the Soul
A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero
Rick McKinley on Living The Kingdom of God
Rick McKinley serves as Lead Pastor of Imago Dei Community. He and his wife, Jeanne, and their four kids moved to Portland, Oregon in October of 2000 to plant the church. Since then, Imago Dei has been voted one of the Top 25 Most Innovative Churches in the Country by Outreach Magazine and Portland Monthly Magazine
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To the Gambler (in all of us)
The trade you are seeking—taking what you have, what you know, what you value— The risk you are hazarding—putting relationships, faith and integrity on the line— To the gambler hungry for pleasure and instant gratification. To the gambler believing the lie. To the one who thinks the idol you’re worshipping won’t devour you in turn.
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Future Rewards
To believe in future rewards is to believe that the long arm of the Lord bends toward justice. – Philip Yancey
What Divides Us?
I recently sat in Tel Aviv and listened to a discussion by a Jewish woman and Palestinian man on the topic of peace and reconciliation. What made this talk different from other peace-making conversations I had heard was that both had lost a child in the violence between Arabs and Jews. One lost a son
What I’m Reading
I’ve been studying the history of slavery for years. It began with an interest in the Civil War and the American Slave Trade in high school, turned into a study of Roman and Christian forms of slavery in graduate school and then evolved over the last decade to a study of advocacy movements in history
To the Lonely Leader
To the lonely leader… misunderstood, accused, taken for granted, To the lonely leader… in need of rest, affirmation, and refreshment, To the lonely leader… acting under conviction, working long hours, doing heroic deeds no one ever sees, To the lonely leader… the moms, the dads, the teachers whose honor is their sacrifice, To the lonely
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Brian Fikkert on Poverty, the Church, and When Helping Hurts
Dr. Brian Fikkert is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development, a research and training center that is dedicated to helping churches and missionaries to declare the kingdom of God by bringing economic development and spiritual transformation to the poor. Brian also serves as a Professor of Economics and Community
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Creating an Environment for Innovation
Guest Post by Keith Wright I was recently asked to speak on innovation in our lives, businesses, churches and organizations. Before I talk about innovation, it’s always important to remember that innovation can’t be its own focus–you don’t become innovative by focusing on it directly. If you just attract risk-takers and innovate for the sake
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The Anatomy of Apathy
[Adapted from Chapter 12 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] In Matthew 7:12 Jesus says, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” We know it as the golden rule. American culture, however, has twisted
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